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Much of his first year was plagued by similar mishaps. In his first Potions lesson, Neville managed to melt Seamus Finnigan 's cauldron, and was subsequently drenched in the boil-curing potion they had been brewing. The following week, in his first Flying lesson with Madam Hooch , Neville accidentally broke his wrist after falling off his broom from a great height; afraid of being left behind on the ground, he had pushed off too early.

He was taken to the hospital wing and his wrist was healed. Nearly getting caught by Filch, they end up in the forbidden third floor corridor, where Neville drew Harry's attention to a giant three-headed dog. They manage to escape and safely return to Gryffindor Tower. That year, Neville received a Remembrall from his dear grandmother as a gift. It was flown in by an owl. This particular gift later allowed Harry Potter to become Gryffindor seeker.

Draco Malfoy threw the small sphere into the air, and Harry flew to grab it, standing up for Neville. Minerva McGonagall saw how easily Harry retrieved the ball and asked him to join the team. Shortly after the Christmas holidays , Neville was the target of a prank by Draco Malfoy , in which his legs were stuck together with the Leg-Locker Curse.

Neville had to bunny-hop all the way to Gryffindor Tower so someone could perform the counter-curse. When Harry, Ron and Hermione urged him to report Malfoy, Neville replied that he didn't want more trouble. Harry gave Neville his last Chocolate Frog from Christmas and told him that he was worth twelve Malfoys, and that the Sorting Hat chose him for Gryffindor, while Malfoy was in "stinking Slytherin.

Neville was sent to the hospital wing a third time after a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. The pair knocked Neville out cold, but Madam Pomfrey believed that Neville would make a full recovery. When he learned Malfoy was trying to get them caught, Neville snuck out of Gryffindor Tower to find them and warn them.

He instead ended up getting caught by Professor McGonagall. He lost fifty House points , and was put in detention with Harry, Hermione, and Malfoy. Sent into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid to search for an injured unicorn, Neville and Malfoy went along one path with Fang , while the other three took another.

When Malfoy snuck up behind Neville and grabbed him to scare him, Neville panicked and sent up wand sparks to warn Hagrid. When Hagrid learned the truth, he instead paired Neville with himself and Hermione. The night Quirinus Quirrell attempted to steal the Sorcerer's Stone , Neville attempted to stop Harry, Ron and Hermione from sneaking out, though he did not know what they were trying to do. However, he thought that they should not be breaking rules and risking that Gryffindor would lose more points, and blocked the portrait hole, willing to fight them to make them stay.

For standing up to the trio, Neville won ten points for Gryffindor at the end-of-term feast. Having moments before, tied Slytherin for the House Cup, this pushed Gryffindor into undisputed first place. Neville's first appearance in was after the start-of-term feast, where he applauded Harry and Ron for flying a car to Hogwarts. The following morning when Ron received a Howler from his mother, Neville urged him to open it quickly.

In Gilderoy Lockhart 's first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, a pair of Cornish pixies picked Neville up by the ears and hung him, by his cloak, from a chandelier. Moments later, he crashed back to the ground when the chandelier collapsed. After the Basilisk attack on Colin Creevey , Neville feared that he might be attacked, due to his poor magical skill, and tried to protect himself by purchasing a large, "evil-smelling" green onion, a pointed purple crystal , and a rotting newt tail.

The other students pointed out that Neville should be all right; he was a pure-blood and thus unlikely to be attacked. Neville attended the first and only meeting of Lockhart 's Duelling Club. When Lockhart suggested the pair to volunteer spell blocking, Snape shot this down, claiming that Neville had difficulty with the simplest spells, and they would have to send what was left of Justin to the hospital wing in a matchbox. Shortly after Valentine's Day, Neville informed Harry that his belongings had been searched by someone.

On the train ride to Hogwarts for his third year , Neville became alarmed when the Hogwarts Express simply stopped. A Dementor then entered the compartment, negatively affecting all the students within, though to varying degrees.

After arriving at Hogsmeade station, Neville told people about the experience in the compartment. This made its way to Draco Malfoy , who taunted Harry about fainting. In their first Divination class, Neville accidentally broke two of Professor Trelawney 's tea cups while reading tea leaves. As the class departed, Professor Trelawney warned him that he would be late next class and urged him to work hard to catch up with everyone else. In Care of Magical Creatures class, Neville practised bowing to a Hippogriff ; he constantly backed away from the animal, which didn't seem to want to bow back.

The next day in Potions , Neville again managed to earn the ire of Professor Snape. He somehow was able to turn his Shrinking Solution orange instead of green. To ensure Neville would get the potion right, Snape told him that he would feed some of it to Neville's toad, Trevor , at the end of the class. Desperately, he asked Hermione for help; she whispered instructions to him out of the corner of her mouth. By the end of class, he was able to turn his potion green, and successfully shrunk Trevor from a toad to a tadpole.

Upon returning Trevor to his proper size, Snape took five points from Hermione simply to spite the Gryffindors. Neville was the first person to be asked. When asked what scared him most in the world, Neville replied "Professor Snape".

To counter the boggart, Lupin asked Neville to picture Snape in his grandmother 's clothes. For his help, Neville earned ten points for Gryffindor. Neville destroyed the boggart at the end of class.

In the spring of , Neville lost the passwords to Gryffindor Tower ; because Sir Cadogan changed them so frequently, Neville needed to write them down so he could remember them. After the passwords disappeared, Sirius Black managed to enter Gryffindor Tower with a knife. After learning Neville was indirectly responsible, Professor McGonagall banned him from all future visits into Hogsmeade , gave him a detention, and forbade anyone from giving him the password to the common room, thus he had to wait outside the portrait until someone came by.

Two days later, Neville received a Howler from his grandmother; he tore out of the Great Hall, amid shouts of laughter, and opened it in the entrance hall, where his grandmother's angry voice told him he brought shame to their family.

At the end of his Divination final exam, Neville was told that, if he told anyone his results, he would suffer a serious accident. He jealously listened to their recap of the Quidditch World Cup ; his grandmother had not wanted to go, and did not purchase tickets. He was also awestruck by Ron's miniature figurine of Viktor Krum. When Moody demonstrated the curse on a spider , Neville was terrified; he gripped his desk so hard, his knuckles turned white. Hermione noticed this and called for the professor to stop.

Having heard from Professor Sprout about Neville's aptitude in Herbology , "Moody" cheered Neville up by telling him what Sprout had said and gave him a number of books he thought Neville would enjoy. One of them was Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean , which Crouch intended for Harry to read in order to learn all about Gillyweed for the second task, but he was stubbornly searching through the library.

A few days later in class, Neville was put under the Imperius Curse by Moody, under the pretence of letting the class know what it felt like. Under Moody's influence, Neville performed a series of "quite astonishing gymnastics" that he could not have performed normally. While the pair seemed to enjoy themselves, Neville accidentally stepped on Ginny's toes while dancing.

Searching for seats, the trio entered Luna Lovegood 's compartment. Once inside, he excitedly showed them his Mimbulus Mimbletonia , a birthday present from his great-uncle Algie. He told them about his plans to show it to Professor Sprout, as well as wanting to breed it. After arriving at Hogwarts, Neville defended Harry during a verbal fight with Seamus Finnigan , claiming that the Daily Prophet was going downhill, not Harry and Dumbledore.

He and his grandmother both believed Harry's claim that Voldemort had returned, and had cancelled their subscription to the newspaper. Neville training in the D. At their first meeting in the Room of Requirement , Neville was left partner-less when they began practice; Neville instead partnered with Harry.

By the beginning of Christmas break, Neville had improved "beyond all recognition. During Christmas break, Harry's friends learned that Neville's parents were not dead, but patients in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries , having gone insane after being tortured by a group of Death Eaters at the end of the First Wizarding War.

Harry was the only one who already knew this, having found out in the Pensieve in , but he had told no one, keeping Neville's secret safe. Before Neville left, his mother handed him an empty Droobles Blowing Gum wrapper; while his grandmother wanted him to throw it away, Neville instead pocketed it. When it was learned that ten Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban in , including three of the ones responsible for the torture of Neville's parents, Neville did not speak of it, but it "wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change" in him, according to Harry.

He worked harder than anyone in D. He, Ginny and Luna joined the trio in flying Thestrals to London, despite Harry's reluctance to let them accompany him.

Once in the Hall of Prophecies , Harry was drawn to an orb that had his name on it. Neville and Hermione urged him not to remove it; once Harry had, the group was confronted by Death Eaters.

In the subsequent battle , Neville accompanied Harry and Hermione. He disarmed a Death Eater who was struggling with Harry, accidentally disarming Harry as well.

Later, Antonin Dolohov broke Neville's nose and wand , but Neville refused Harry's suggestion that he leave with an incapacitated Hermione to go get help, instead carrying her while he and Harry searched for Ron, Ginny and Luna. The other three were soon incapacitated and Neville and Harry were cornered by the Death Eaters. Bellatrix Lestrange briefly tortured Neville with the Cruciatus Curse , both to try to make Harry hand over the prophecy and to see how long Neville held out before "cracking" like his parents.

After the Order of the Phoenix arrived, Harry tried to get out with Neville, who was struck with Tarantallegra by Dolohov. As Harry pulled him up a flight of stairs, Neville accidentally smashed the prophecy. As the battle continued, Neville alerted Harry to the appearance of Albus Dumbledore.

The battle soon ended, and Neville and his friends were transported back to Hogwarts, where Neville's nose was fixed by Madam Pomfrey. Harry soon learned the contents of the prophecy from Dumbledore. As both Neville and Harry were born at the close of July to parents who had all escaped Voldemort three times, they both qualified for the prophecy child. However, Dumbledore believed that the prophecy did indeed refer to Harry, not Neville, as Voldemort marked Harry as his equal by attacking him. Neville purchased a new wand , 13" cherry wood, with a unicorn hair core , from Garrick Ollivander before his sixth year.

Neville and Hermione Granger in their sixth year. When Romilda Vane , a younger Gryffindor student, invited Harry to come to her compartment and implicitly insulted Neville and Luna, Harry coldly rebuffed her, emphasising that Neville and Luna were among his closest and most loyal friends. Neville was later invited to join Horace Slughorn , the new Potions professor, in his train compartment. Slughorn was searching for new students to add to his Slug Club , but Neville didn't seem to meet Slughorn's requirements, and was not invited back to any of Slughorn's parties.

Towards the end of the school year , Neville participated in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Along with Luna Lovegood , he was the only member of Dumbledore's Army to reply to the summons via the coins. Neville suffered an injury that kept him in the hospital wing for some time, though he was able to attend the funeral of Albus Dumbledore shortly afterwards, where Luna helped him into his seat. The D. Neville got in trouble with the Carrows for refusing to practise the Cruciatus Curse on other students as a method of punishment, as well as for standing up against their bigotry and cruelty.

The revived D. Neville, Luna and Ginny also attempted to steal Godric Gryffindor's Sword from Snape's office, but were caught on the way out. In his own way to subvert the Carrows' manner of discipline, Snape only gave them a detention, sending them into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.

Neville eventually decided to cease their open rebellion after Michael Corner got caught and tortured freeing a chained-up first year. Neville was eventually left alone to lead the rebellion efforts, as Luna was dragged off the Hogwarts Express by Death Eaters around Christmas of to coerce her father into ceasing his political dissidence in The Quibbler , and Ginny did not return to Hogwarts following the Easter holidays , as her family went into hiding following Harry, Ron and Hermione's escape from Malfoy Manor.

By this time, the Carrows were aware of Neville's role in the rebellion, and he suffered beatings and torture. The Ministry also targeted Neville's grandmother to try to intimidate him, but she evaded capture and went on the run. Eventually, the Carrows realized that Neville was the main ringleader and decided that Hogwarts could do without him. Fearing that they may kill him, Neville made for the Room of Requirement , which he was able to turn into a hiding place for the D.

By May, most of the D. Believing that their return meant the overthrow of the Death Eater professors, Neville signalled the rest of the D. As students returned, along with the Order of the Phoenix , Voldemort and his Death Eater army approached, and the Battle of Hogwarts began. During the first round of battle, Neville used various plants to attack Death Eaters , and helped transport the injured and dead when a temporary cease-fire was called.

He briefly spoke to Harry, who told him that it was top priority to kill Voldemort's snake, Nagini. He was subsequently forced to wear the Sorting Hat as it burned because he refused to join Voldemort. Weasley when Ron looks over and sees Neville accompanied by a stern-looking elderly woman, his grandmother.

Ron shouts Neville's name and runs over to greet him. Neville's grandmother is shocked to learn that Neville hasn't told his friends that his parents are currently living in St. Mungo's wing long-term: "They didn't give their health and their sanity so their only son would be ashamed of them, you know! So, the truth about Neville's parents and their torture at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange comes out by accident. Despite the unexpected nature of this revelation, Neville does seem ready to open up about his parents' horrible assault.

Like Harry, he was essentially orphaned by Voldemort, and he admires Harry's interview with The Quibbler , saying, "It must have been Finally, in the Department of Mysteries, Neville must confront his own personal demon, Bellatrix Lestrange. As Bellatrix mocks him for what she did to his parents, Neville bravely insists that Harry absolutely cannot hand over the glass prophecy ball.

Even when Bellatrix casts the Crucio curse on Neville — the same spell that drove his parents insane — he still stands strong. Much like Harry, Neville faces the person who tore apart his family, who ruined his life, and stands strong. In fact, this doubling between Neville and Harry is no accident. Neville, like Harry, was born at the end of July. Neville's parents, like Harry's parents, defied Voldemort three times.

It can be assumed that Neville was among the spectators of the third task Triwizard Maze , supporting Harry along with his fellow Gryffindors. He was also most likely among the mass of students that attended the Memorial feast to Cedric Diggory , after Cedric was murdered on the orders of Lord Voldemort. Searching for seats, the trio entered Luna Lovegood 's compartment.

Once inside, he excitedly showed them his Mimbulus mimbletonia , a birthday present from his great-uncle Algie. He told them about his plans to show it to Professor Sprout, as well as wanting to breed it.

After arriving at Hogwarts, Neville helped Harry get into Gryffindor Tower as Harry had not learned the new password yet, and then defended Harry during a verbal fight with Seamus Finnigan , claiming that the Daily Prophet was going downhill, not Harry and Dumbledore. He and his grandmother both believed Harry's claim that Voldemort had returned, and had cancelled their subscription to the newspaper. At their first meeting in the Room of Requirement , Neville was left partner-less when they began practice; Neville instead partnered with Harry.

After successfully disarming Harry, Neville then joined Ron and Hermione, so Harry could check on the others. Harry was the only one who already knew this, having found out in the Pensieve in , but he had told no one, keeping Neville's secret safe. Before Neville left, his mother handed him an empty Droobles Blowing Gum wrapper; while his grandmother wanted him to throw it away, Neville instead pocketed it.

When it was learned that ten Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban in , including three of the ones responsible for the torture of Neville's parents, Neville did not speak of it, but it " wrought a strange and even slightly alarming change " in him, according to Harry.

He worked harder than anyone in D. The latter convinced Harry to check to see if Sirius was at 12 Grimmauld Place before rushing off to rescue him, and Ginny and Luna came to their assistance. Harry and Hermione broke into Umbridge's office, and Ron wanted to trick Umbridge, Ginny and Luna stopped people from entering the corridor. Umbridge unfortunately wasn't fooled and ordered the Inquisitorial Squad to round them up. Neville, seeing what is going on, tried to help, but he was caught as well.

Neville and others broke free using skills that they had acquired in their D. They then regrouped with Harry and Hermione, who had left Umbridge with a group of enraged centaurs. They fly via Thestrals to London, despite Harry's reluctance to let them accompany him.

Once in the Hall of Prophecies , Harry was drawn to an orb that had his name on it. Neville and Hermione urged him not to remove it; once Harry had, the group was confronted by Death Eaters. They run into the Time Room , where he disarmed Rabastan Lestrange who was struggling with Harry, accidentally disarming Harry as well.

Wanting to fix his mistake he tried to stun Lestrange, but he hit a rack full of time-turners. Taking advantage of the moment Neville crawled from under the desk, but Dolohov broke Neville's nose and wand, so Harry placed Dolohov under Full Body-Bind.

Neville refused Harry's suggestion that he leave with an incapacitated Hermione to go get help, instead carrying her while he and Harry searched for Ron, Ginny, and Luna. When several Death Eaters cornered Harry alone in the Death Chamber , Neville stormed into the room to aid him, armed with Hermione's wand, but due to his broken nose, was unable to pronounce spells correctly. When another Death Eater seized Neville, Bellatrix Lestrange briefly tortured Neville with the Cruciatus Curse , both to try to make Harry hand over the prophecy and to see how long Neville held out before "cracking" like his parents.

Even under the threat of being tortured possibly even going insane like his parents , Neville told Harry not to hand the prophecy over. Harry urged Neville to run, but Neville refused, instead breaking Macnair's grip on Harry by jabbing the Death Eater in the eye with Hermione's wand.

Harry throw Neville the prophecy to cast Impediment Jinx on Malfoy. As Harry pulled Neville up a flight of stairs, Neville accidentally smashed the prophecy.

As the battle continued, Neville alerted Harry to the appearance of Albus Dumbledore. The battle soon ended, and Neville and his friends were transported back to Hogwarts, where Neville's nose was fixed by Poppy Pomfrey. Harry soon learned the contents of the prophecy from Dumbledore. As both Neville and Harry were born at the close of July to parents who had all escaped Voldemort three times, they both qualified for the prophecy child. However, Dumbledore believed that the prophecy did indeed refer to Harry, not Neville, as Voldemort marked Harry as his equal by attacking him.

Neville's grandmother purchased him a new wand, 13" cherry wood, with a unicorn hair core, from Garrick Ollivander before his sixth year. When Romilda Vane , a younger Gryffindor student, invited Harry to come to her compartment and implicitly insulted Neville and Luna, Harry coldly rebuffed her, emphasising that Neville and Luna were among his closest and most loyal friends.

Neville was later invited to join Horace Slughorn , the new Potions Master , in his train compartment. Slughorn was searching for new students to add to his Slug Club , but Neville didn't seem to meet Slughorn's requirements. Neville also achieved four known O. Professor McGonagall informed him that the 'Acceptable' grade he achieved in Transfiguration was not good enough for N. He told her he only applied for Transfiguration for his grandmother's desires, but McGonagall stated it was time for Augusta to be proud of the grandson she had, as opposed to the one she desired.

She let him down gently on his application on Transfiguration, and instead encouraged him to take Charms. Towards the end of the school year, Neville participated in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.

Along with Luna Lovegood, he was the only member of Dumbledore's Army to reply to the summons via the coins. Neville suffered an injury that kept him in the hospital wing for some time, though he was able to attend the funeral of Albus Dumbledore shortly afterwards, where Luna helped him into his seat.

The D. Neville got in trouble with the Carrows for refusing to practise the Cruciatus Curse on other students as a method of punishment, as well as for standing up against their bigotry and cruelty. The revived D. Neville, Luna and Ginny also attempted to steal Godric Gryffindor's sword from Snape's office, but were caught on the way out. In his own way to subvert the Carrows' manner of discipline, Snape only gave them a detention, sending them into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid.

Neville eventually decided to cease their open rebellion after Michael Corner was caught and brutally tortured for freeing a chained-up first year. Neville was eventually left alone to lead the rebellion efforts, as Luna was dragged off the Hogwarts Express by Death Eaters around Christmas of to coerce her father into ceasing his political dissidence in The Quibbler , and Ginny did not return to Hogwarts following the Easter holidays, as her family went into hiding following Harry, Ron, and Hermione's escape from Malfoy Manor.

By this time, the Carrows were aware of Neville's role in the rebellion, and he suffered beatings and torture. The Ministry also targeted Neville's grandmother to try to intimidate him, but she evaded capture and went on the run. Eventually, the Carrows realised that Neville was the main ringleader and decided that Hogwarts could do without him.

Fearing that they may kill him, Neville made for the Room of Requirement , which he was able to turn into a hiding place for the D.

By May, most of the D. The trio and Neville in the Hog's Head Inn. While in the tunnel he explained to the trio the nature of his injuries and the reign of the Carrows at Hogwarts. He also informed the trio that the D.

Believing that their return meant the overthrow of the Death Eater professors, Neville signalled the rest of the D. During the first round of battle, Neville used various plants to attack Death Eaters, and helped transport the injured and dead when a temporary cease-fire was called.

He briefly spoke to Harry, who told him that it was top priority to kill Voldemort 's snake and Horcrux , Nagini. He was subsequently forced to wear the Sorting Hat as it burned because he refused to join Voldemort. Neville slaying Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor. Because of his tremendous bravery shown on the battlefield, Neville was able to pull Godric Gryffindor's sword from the burning hat, in the process proving himself a true Gryffindor , something that was doubted constantly throughout due to his apparently weak-willed, shy, and bumbling nature.

In a single stroke, he carried out Harry's final order, slaying Nagini, destroying Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux.

Scabior fell to his death when the bridge fell down. Neville briefly worked as an Auror , immediately following the war. Sometime before , he married his former classmate and D. The pair lived at the Leaky Cauldron , where she became the landlady. Over the years, he remained in contact with his old friends, as in , Ginny told her and Harry's eldest son " to give Neville their love " when he arrived at Hogwarts.

In the late s and early s , Neville aided members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force who pursued a profession as a Professor by showing them a mental trick to make casting the Deterioration Hex seem as a second nature to profoundly increase its effects, while he also instructed the Magizoologists how to use the Bravery Charm to devastating effect.

Neville in his sixth year , age Neville was said to strongly resemble his mother. He was round-faced, [12] short, chubby, and had blond hair. Pansy Parkinson had once called him " fat ", but this may have been an exaggeration, as she frequently made disparaging comments about Gryffindor students.

When he was younger, Neville was clumsy, forgetful, shy, and many considered him ill-suited for Gryffindor house because he seemed timid. However, Neville proved that the Sorting Hat had seen the bravery beneath his insecurity, as he stood up to his only friends as a first-year [12] and later became one of the D.

Though he came from a pure-blood family, he held no prejudice against half-bloods or Muggle-borns. Neville appeared to suffer from a degree of post-traumatic stress disorder, as the torture of a spider via the cruciatus curse by Barty Crouch Junior in disguise as Alastor Moody was enough to cause him a severe anxiety attack.

This was likely due to his own experience with his parents being subjected to the curse's worst possible outcome: the onset of permanent and complete insanity. This familiarity of what the Cruciatus Curse could do in skilled enough hands was more than enough to terrify him.

Throughout the trials he faced over his seven years at Hogwarts , Neville blossomed from a timid, self-deprecating, and generally nervous student into a stalwart soldier possessed of an ironclad will, courage of outstanding merit, and a nobility of spirit, despite still having a comical and shy but at the same time courageous and fierce personality.

In many ways, Neville's transformation allowed him to change from a scaredy-cat into a lordly lion, becoming a ferocious defender of his fellow students during Voldemort's reign. Suffice it to say, Neville's appointment to Gryffindor House was well-deserved.

Neville was not an academically strong student in his early years, often requiring Hermione 's help in class and with school-work. However as confirmed by McGonagall , part of this was likely caused by his use of another's wand, poor self-esteem, and anxiety caused by the incessant bullying from many of his peers and Snape. When he found both courage and self-confidence in his later years, Neville's magical skills as a wizard grew and he proved to be a powerful wizard in his own right.

Neville mastering the Boggart-Banishing Spell. As Neville's parents, Alice and Frank Longbottom, had been permanent residents of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries since Neville's infancy, he never knew them as the popular and talented Aurors they were reputed to be. Nevertheless, he held them in high esteem, much like his friend Harry looked up to the parents he never knew. Neville regularly visited his parents at St Mungo's with his grandmother, where he tried to speak to them and brought them sweets, keeping the wrappers his mother handed back to him, even when his grandmother told him to throw them in the bin.

When the Lestranges escaped from Azkaban in , Neville did not discuss it, but he became very dedicated to his training in Dumbledore's Army. During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries , he was taunted about his parents by Bellatrix Lestrange , who also briefly subjected him to the Cruciatus Curse, but Neville remained defiant. Augusta Longbottom , his paternal grandmother.

Neville was raised by his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom, after his parents were tortured to the point of insanity when he was an infant. This was pivotal in the development of his personality, as his grandmother often expressed her disappointment with her grandson's seeming lack of magical ability, and what she considered his inability to live up to his parents' skills.

By Minerva McGonagall's claim, however, Augusta should be proud of the grandson she has, as opposed to the one she wants. When Neville was a child, his grandmother, as well as some of his other relatives , feared that he might have been a Squib. She came to Hogwarts during the final battle and ran off to assist him in fighting Death Eaters. Neville appeared to be fairly close to his great-uncle Algie , who tried to "scare" magic into him when he was younger; he once accidentally dropped Neville out of a window while reaching for a meringue, and when Neville bounced, his family was pleased to discover that he was not, in fact, a Squib.

Algie later rewarded him with his pet toad Trevor for getting into Hogwarts. Algie and Neville appear to have shared an interest in Herbology , as Algie gave Neville his very rare Mimbulus mimbletonia plant, which at one point was the password to the Gryffindor Common Room. However, as Algie was willing to risk Neville's life to reveal his magic, such as pushing him into a lake and dangling him from a window, Algie more then likely cares for Neville's magic more than the boy himself.

Hannah Abbott , his future wife. Neville and Hannah Abbott were never shown as being more than classmates during school. Since Hannah was in Hufflepuff House and Neville in Gryffindor , they probably did not spend too much time together, though it is possible that they became friends when they were both members of Dumbledore's Army.

Sometime after leaving Hogwarts, Neville and Hannah married and moved into the Leaky Cauldron , where she worked as the landlady and Neville as the Hogwarts Herbology teacher. It is also possible that she and Neville became close during Herbology lessons, as those were shared by Gryffindor and Hufflepuff of their year. It stands to reason that, since Herbology was where Neville excelled, he may have been confident and even charming amongst the plant life, thus attracting Hannah's attention.

Since Hannah lost her mother in her sixth year, it may also have been Neville's ability to sympathise with her grief that brought the two together, or simply Hannah felt attracted to Neville's heroism in the Battle of Hogwarts and when the war was over she kept contact with him, they fell in love and got married. Hannah is eventually retrained as a Healer and applies to become the new matron of Hogwarts, a job held by Poppy Pomfrey during their years as students.

It is possible that she applied in order to be closer to Neville. However, in the year , Madame Pomfrey is seen to still be the matron, as she resets Albus Potter 's broken arm. Trevor , his pet toad. Trevor was Neville's pet toad.

In Neville's third year, Professor Snape made him test his Shrinking Solution on the toad; though Neville's dubious potion-making skills could have resulted in the toad's death, Trevor was successfully transformed into a tadpole, much to the Gryffindors ' delight. At some point, Trevor escaped into the Hogwarts Lake. Both pet and owner felt a sense of relief.

Harry Potter , his good friend and room-mate. They became classmates and room-mates after they were both sorted into the Gryffindor house, and came to be good friends over the years. Harry felt that Neville was far more deserving of pity than he, though he promised Dumbledore not to tell anyone what he knew, as it was Neville's decision whether or not to reveal his past to his friends.

In their fifth year, Neville became a member of Dumbledore's Army , an organisation led by Harry to oppose Dolores Umbridge and learn practical defensive magic. After the Lestranges escaped from Azkaban that same year, Neville resolved to become stronger and try to honour his parents' reputations as excellent Aurors. When Harry was crying over the death of Sirius Black , Neville did not question nor protest Harry's friendship with an alleged criminal and mass murder, instead consoling him for his godfather's demise.

In , Harry refused to allow Romilda Vane to insult Neville and Luna Lovegood , stating that they were his real friends, and the only ones who had fought alongside Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and himself at the Department of Mysteries. At the end of the year, Neville and Harry both fought in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and attended Dumbledore's funeral. Neville would later state that the hope Harry inspired in standing up to his enemies drove Neville to do the same.

Neville and Harry fought together in the Battle of Hogwarts , where Harry realised that Neville was one of his closest friends and one of the few people he would like to see once again before he dies in the forest and Neville showed his bravery and loyalty to Harry when he openly defied Voldemort and beheaded Nagini , destroying Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux. Neville and Harry remained in contact after the end of the Second Wizarding War and Harry made Neville the godfather of his son Albus Severus , showing their good friendship.

Harry's children were later taught by Neville, who had been appointed Herbology professor at Hogwarts. Hermione Granger , his friend.